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August 22, 2017  |  By Dorade Team

Dorade Featured in Sailing Illustrated

Audi Hamilton Island Race Week: Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance

Dorade Racing at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week in Australia

By Tom Ehman/Sailing Illustrated

Article Excerpt:
What do you do next when, as a mountain guide you have led expeditions on some of the world’s toughest climbs and as a pilot you have broken several world aviation records? If you are serial adventurer Matt Brooks, you find a 88 year-old yacht with a stellar racing record, spend a year restoring the Sparkman and Stephens design to its original glory and then set about beating every race time the boat recorded from the 1930s onwards. Brooks’ yacht DORADE – the first yacht to sport the characteristic ship’s vent after which it’s named – is a classic Sparkman and Stephens design that was so radical and successful in her day that her crew was given a tickertape parade on Broadway after winning the Fastnet Race in 1931. Brooks has already bettered the goals he set for the restored DORADE, having campaigned in all of the classic bluewater races in the United States including winning the 2013 Transpacific Yacht Race, 77 years after the boat’s original win. Now it’s Australia’s turn, with the ‘DORADE Down Under Campaign’ in full swing as the yacht’s elegant and sleek lines grace [Audi Hamilton Island] Race Week and, with a crew that would do justice to a top international grand prix sailing program, set to prove that this beautiful boat from the New York Yacht Club is very much a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
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